{"product_id":"fighting-the-slave-trade-west-african-strategies-hardcover","title":"Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSylviane A. Diouf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eFighting the Slave Trade\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It challenges widely held myths of African passivity and general complicity in the trade and shows that resistance to enslavement and to involvement in the slave trade was much more pervasive than has been acknowledged by the orthodox interpretation of historical literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focused on West Africa, the essays collected here examine in detail the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individuals, families, communities, and states. In chapters discussing the manipulation of the environment, resettlement, the redemption of captives, the transformation of social relations, political centralization, marronage, violent assaults on ships and entrepôts, shipboard revolts, and controlled participation in the slave trade as a way to procure the means to attack it, \u003ci\u003eFighting the Slave Trade\u003c\/i\u003e presents a much more complete picture of the West African slave trade than has previously been available.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of the award-winning Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, \u003cb\u003eSylviane A. Diouf\u003c\/b\u003e also initiated and co-organized the conference \"Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade\" held at Rutgers University. She is a researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.66 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618712645939,"sku":"9780821415160","price":151.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZnpNcGp5cS8xcjFZNXh5VG03WTI3dz09.webp?v=1761908214","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/fighting-the-slave-trade-west-african-strategies-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}